Soccer fans, get ready as we have some brand new information about the new version of your beloved Fifa series. David Rutter, the main producer of Fifa 13, told to everyone that was present at a recent London showcase that FIFA 13 will have 5 major improvements. These 5 improvements are First Touch Control, Player Impact, Complete Dribble, Tactical Free-Kicks and Attacking AI.

One of the first things to do at FIFA 13 was to implement a more realistic ball control. Now it will be more difficult to control a receiving ball with your player. It all depends on the strength, the speed, the ball height and the technical skills of your player to achieve the control of the ball and run with it.

 Another feature that got improved is the player impact engine. According to David Rutter, there will be no more unrealistic animations in the players challenges and we can hopefully kiss goodbye to all those awful physics bugs that flooded YouTube. The engine has been optimized and new a set of impact values have been added at the hip and the upper body area.

 In FIFA 12 you could dribble just by changing direction. In FIFA 13 this won’t be possible anymore. Moreover, the free-kicks got a new system. Up to three players can now gather around the ball. Players can feint a direct shot and adjust it to a player who comes off the wall. Also, the defense set pieces have been improved.

Last but not least, the offensive Artificial Intelligence got a huge improvement. The CPU-controlled players got better running routes and better guessing options of where you pass the ball. Also the strikers are smarter and move with the offside line of your defenders, waiting to receive the ball and run with it towards your goal post.

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Edit:http://www.dsogaming.com/news/fifa-13-first-screenshots-and-details/ 

Sounds good. I just hope that the A.I. is passing the ball less often than in FIFA 12 on the higher difficulties. Seriously starting at Pro difficulty every team you play against feels a bit like Barca. That was the only thing I missed from FIFA 11, since EA got that right there.

Hopefully Lionel Messi will not be on the front cover.

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That as well of course.

I want Jack Wilshere on the cover again

I agree, it is just a joke. I was playing against Lichenstein (in the UEFA 2012 expansion) on world class and their passing percentage was over 90%....

But FIFA 12 does play nicely, but there are 3 main problems that have been driving me mad (that last bit doesn't matter that much because I mostly play with other people either in co-op or competitive)

1. Player Impact Engine. It looks nice, but the fouls are just broken. It is so ridiculously annoying when you give away penalties without doing anything (sometimes given away by players that you aren't even controlling)

2. Confidence based rubbish. They say they want to remove scripting and just make it all down to skills, but from experience, if you shoot with someone who has already scored, he is FAR more likely to score, it is maddening

3. Career mode youth players. So I played about 10 seasons of career, and by the end, there were about 1/4 as many 80+s as at the start. The youth system was just broken in a few ways. Firstly, they didn't grow enough, my striker grew about 2 per season from the ages of 16-24, getting to around 78, but he often scored around 50 goals per season... Secondly, the AI doesn't know what to do with them, sometimes top PL teams were playing guys who were ~60

But EA have made great strides recently and I have confidence they will continue to do so!

I have a question. How long does EA keep the servers active for online multiplayer for these games. Year or two or more. Thanks in advance.

More importantly do EA allow you to transfer data from the current Fifa installment to the upcoming Fifa?